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Luria's – originally L. Luria & Son, was a chain of catalog showroom stores in Florida, from 1961 to 1997. Service Merchandise – closed all its retail stores by early 2002; the name was resurrected in 2004 for an online retail operation [41] [42] Witmark – operated in southwestern Michigan; founded 1969, liquidated 1997 [43] [44]
Best Products Company, Inc., or simply Best, was a chain of American catalog showroom retail stores founded by Sydney and Frances Lewis in 1957 and formerly headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The company was in existence for four decades before closing all of their stores by February 1997 and completely liquidating by December 1998.
Spiegel Spring/Summer 1958 Catalog. Spiegel was an American direct marketing retailer founded in 1865 by Joseph Spiegel.Spiegel published a catalog, like its competitors Sears, Aldens, and Montgomery Ward, which advertised various brands of apparel, accessories, and footwear, as well as housewares, toys, tools, firearms, and electronics.
In 1947, the company was the fourth-largest mail-order distributor in the United States with $79.2 million in sales and changed its name to Aldens, Inc. [2] In 1957, sales were $102.4 million, they had 4,795 employees, and operated catalog telephone stores in 68 cities. [2]
After leaving the wholesale business, they opened Service Merchandise, Inc., the first of what evolved into a chain of catalog showrooms. It opened in 1960 at 309 Broadway in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. [1] Older logo mainly used in the 1970s–1985. During the 1970s and 1980s, Service Merchandise was a leading catalog-showroom retailer.
Woodcraft moved into a warehouse and corporate office after the success of its initial printed ads which led to creation of its catalog. Sam Ross, founder of SBR Inc., bought Woodcraft in 1972 and used his retail experience to build new stores and grow the company.
Consumers Distributing aimed to reduce costs for customers by stocking merchandise in a warehouse-type stocking system instead of displaying them in a costly showroom. Customers made their selections from a catalogue, filled out a form listing the items they wanted, then waited for stock staff to retrieve the items from the warehouse.
Forty feet north of the Administration Building is the 2,000,000-square-foot (190,000 m 2) Mail Order House, also known as the Catalog House, that was the heart of Montgomery Ward's operations. Completed in 1908, the eight-story building was painted white and capped with a flat roof, with an interior that contained miles of chutes, conveyors ...